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Volume 8,
Issue 25,
17 June 2004

Volume 8,
Issue 25,
2004

The Latvian public health service dates back to 1947. The Sanitary Epidemiological Service, created in Soviet times, provided two main functions – assessment of health risk factors, including surveillance of communicable diseases, and inspection.

In the past eight years there have been three pandemic 'false alarms' caused by avian H5N1 viruses. The first of these in 1997 was a turning point in our understanding of the difficulties of vaccine development from a lethal avian virus.

The European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections network, at its third collaborative group meeting in May 2004, established two working groups to facilitate information exchange on lymphogranuloma venereum

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This year’s EFSA conference, Science, Food, Society, is constructed around the motto ‘contextualising risk assessment’ and will take place from 18–21 September in Parma. The call for posters is now open and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to submit a proposal by 2 April.

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A public call for expressions of interest as Commission appointees to the Advisory Forum of ECDC has been made. The selection procedure is looking to appoint representatives of non-governmental organisations representing patients, professional bodies or academia. The deadline for applications is 16 February 2018. Click here for more info.